PlatformOne™ is a generic market data platform that can be used to build a whole variety of systems. However, there are a couple of application areas where certain of its components can be taken off the shelf and put together to build an out-of-the-box ready-made solution. One of those areas involves building gateways between different market data systems. The other area is Contributions.
Contributions have formed a significant part of JPA’s business for many years. In particular, we were involved with some of the earliest implementations of the Bloomberg Multi-Product Feed, going back to the days when it was transmitted over asynchronous cable. We were also instrumental in developing the publishing infrastructure for the Moneyline MTRS product. So it was hardly surprising that when we sat down and started to develop the PlatformOne™ product set that contributions were absolutely central to the overall concept.
The net result of this focus is that there is now a complete stand-alone subset of the PlatformOne™ product that deals with contributions. So our clients get the best of both worlds. Not only can they can have a complete off-the-shelf contributions package, but they can also benefit from the additional features that being part of a fully-functional market data platform brings them.
The PlatformOne™ contributions architecture is described in the white paper here. We believe that it can match any other multi-vendor contributions system on the market, feature for feature, as well as having several unique features of its own - such as the Tracker module, and the ability to modify the configuration in real-time without having to re-start everything. But read the paper and judge for yourself. Then drop us a line and we'll talk about setting up a trial.
In the meantim, if you're interested in more detail about the various modules involved in the contributions architecture, here they are:
| BloomContrib | Bloomberg Multi-Product Feed contribution server. Handles Type 8, 9, 14 and 21 packets (others available on request) | More details available here | Available now |
| Compositor | This subscribes to data from Publishing Clients and publishes it as pages. Various layout options are available | More details available here and here | Available now |
| Contributor | This test tool simulates a PlatformOne™ contribution target. | More details available here | Available now |
| eSpeedServer | eSpeed contribution server. | More details available here | Available now |
| MlinkContrib | Reuters Marketlink contribution server. Handles pages and RICs. | More details available here and here | Available now |
P1PubClient (Java) |
Set of Java classes for building publishing applets. | More details available here | Available now |
| P1PubClient (COM) | Set of COM objects for building publishing clients. | Mail for more details | Available now |
| Publisher | This test tool allows you manually to publish data to PlatformOne™ contribution targets. | Mail for more details | Available now |
| PubHub | The Publishing Hub receives data from Publishing Clients, and optimises and aggregates before sending it all out to multiple contribution targets. | More details available here | Available now |
| PubStation | This enables straightforward publication of data out of Excel spreadsheets into PlatformOne™ (and hence on to the likes of Marketlink and Bloomberg, as well as in-house distribution) | More details available here | Available now |
| Sub2Pub | This subscribes to data from Publishing Clients and publishes it. A whole variety of rules can be applied to the data before publishing it. | More details available here and here | Available now |
| WebHub | The Web Hub receives data from Publishing Web Services, and optimises and aggregates before sending it all out to multiple contribution targets. | Mail for more details | Available Q2 2005 |